21 Verbs to Use for the Word trowels

It did not look as I remembered it, but without hesitation I took a trowel which I had brought with me, and began to dig in the nearest left-hand corner.

It was easier for this Jones to rhyme in heroics than to handle a trowel or construct a chimney.

"I believe that Chalk has bought a trowel, in case we run up against it.

I always have to carry a trowel in my sweater pocket, and I stop every ten steps to dig the cakes of mud off my sabots.

He caught up the trowel, turned to his work and began to sing once more: "When I hands in my checks, O, my ladies, Mighty little I espec's, O, my ladies" [Illustration: She dropped into a seat, staring like one demented.]

The method which architects strongly advocate is that the joints shall be struck as the work proceedsthat is, that very shortly after a brick is laid, and while the mortar is yet soft, the bricklayer shall draw his trowel, or a tool made for the purpose, across it, to give it a smooth and a sloping surface.

At the same moment every worker on the walls flung down his trowel or hod, every slave of the palaces stopped grinding or scouring or drawing water or carrying faggots or polishing the miles of tessellated floors, so that, when the tyrant's heart stopped beating, at that very instant life ceased to circulate in the huge house he had built, and in all its members it became a carcass for his carcass.

So it occurred to me that I had forgotten my trowel," he said.

He helped in the building of the new structure of Lincoln's Inn, when, having a trowel in his hand, he had a book in his pocket.' "PETER RAMUS, one of the most celebrated writers and intrepid thinkers of the sixteenth century, was employed in his childhood as a shepherd, and obtained his education by serving as a lacquey in the College of Navarre.

Oh, Judy dear," she laid down her trowel, fighting hard against a curious sickness which rose within her.

Four medals, bearing the same inscription, two of gold, and two of silver gilt, having been placed at the corners of the stone, which was then lowered, the Due de Sully presented the silver trowel, while two of the attendant nobles alternately offered the hammer and the silver trough containing the mortar.

It is not seemly to be idle among the working, and here you will not refuse to be our fellow-laborer;" with these words he reached the trowel to Charlotte, who threw mortar with it under the stoneseveral of the others were then desired to do the same, and then it was at once let fall.

Nadaud has resumed his trowel, and is a mason in London.

In a few rapid words Hilary told the scheme of Anna's flight, at the same time setting the screen aside so as to show the hole in the wall nearly closed, humming his tune and ringing the trowel on the brickwork.

I'll keep up the sham for you!" Starting now here, now there, Flora wavered as he reeled to the broken wall and seized the trowel.

he said, again sounding the trowel.

1 Come listen, ye students of every degree; I sing of a wit and a tutor perdie, A statesman profound, a critic immense, In short, a mere jumble of learning and sense; And yet of his talents though laudably vain, His own family arts he could never attain. 2 His father, intending his fortune to build, In his youth would have taught him the trowel to wield.

Said the Master, "One may hardly carve rotten wood, or use a trowel to the wall of a manure-yard!

Gebir, my old free-mason, and prince of plasterers at Babel, bring in your trowel, most Ancient Grand!

he laughingly said, and at the wall once more waved the ringing trowel, "instinct, I reckon; ordinary manhoodto womanhood.

He passed his boyhood near Charing Crosshaving been born in Hartshorn Lane, now Northumberland Street; he attended the parish school of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields; and persons who roam about Lincoln's Inn will call to mind that he helped to build ita trowel in one hand and a volume of Horace in the other.

21 Verbs to Use for the Word  trowels